The End of May

Harding has only been out a couple of weeks and I already need a "slow down."  Keri and I headed to Arizona to spend some time on the Navajo Reservation.  We are hoping to set up a program similar to HIZ-Path in Tuba City, AZ. The potential is there and the cost will be substantially less.  Harding has changed there approach to HIZ-Path which will cost our students a significantly greater amount of money.  It makes me sad, especially considering how much publicity HIZ-Path has brought to Harding. We are going to continue to push HIZ-Path but we see the need to develop an alternative.  Our goal is to take a group of undergraduates and graduates to AZ during Spring Break.  We will then see where we need to go from there.

Keri and I (Ian was on a Harding Academy Chorus tour) headed for AZ on Sunday, May 18, stopping at Mom's.  We spent a couple of nights there and helped around the place before continuing on Tuesday.  We made it to Albuquerque, NM on Tuesday night and on into Tuba City, AZ on Wednesday.  We arrived just in time to participate in a sweat lodge prayer session.

Thursday was spent looking around the area and Friday was spent meeting with different administrators.  Saturday, we headed for the Grand Canyon (about 45 miles away) and then on to Steve's (my brother) house in Prescott Valley. We spent Sunday with him and headed back to Searcy on Monday morning.

Moving Toward Summer

Beckie just stopped by to ask if I had posted anything recently so I looked.  Mt last post was February and I stated that I planned to post more.  Obviously that didn't happen.  I also stated that Keri and I were going to Tuba City, AZ to look at setting up a HIZ-Path type program for our undergraduates and those graduates that will not be able to afford the additional expense that is to be added to the program next year.  HIZ-Path has brought more positive advertisement to Harding than anything in a long time.  We even have graduate students that come just for the chance to participate in the HIZ-Path experience.  I'm really afraid that it may not survive because Harding is interested in charging more money for students to participate.  Sad, sad situation!  Administration will probably never be aware of the impact but there are hundreds of children in Zambia and potential graduate students from all over the United States that WILL know.